designs,decorating,life

Hello! my name is Tamar, I am a jewelry and accessory designer behind Nest Pretty Things, we are a husband and wife team and sell online through our website and Etsy shops and wholesale to over 50 shops around the world, my husband Ronen manages the business side and I am the designer and maker.
We have a lovely studio in Burlington Vermont and live near by in Shelburne, a beautiful little village right by Lake Champlain, we now have three sons in college (24,22,20) and the sweetest cat Isabel.
I love to decorate (you will always find me working on some project or other), cook and garden (I wish our VT season wasn't so short) and travel.

January 02, 2009

Duvet Tutorial and some more new work

I am one of those of people who never really understands what to do with a flat sheet...I like to use duvet covers and I always seem to be missing one or two for all the comferters in the house, I also find them very expensive to buy, so, it occurred to me the other day that I could make them myself! I have tons of flat sheets in the linen closet, I pulled out 2 flannel sheets , I love to mix and match the patterns and made one myself, it was easy as pie!Here are the instructions:1. lay 2 sheets of the same size facing each other on the biggest bed in the house (so you have lots of room to maneuver).2. lay an existing duvet cover in the size you want to make over the sheets (if you don't have one lay the blanket you want to cover over them).3. leave a .5" margin and mark a cutting line around 2 sides of the sheets (leave the top and one side uncut).4. Pin all sides of sheets together and sew around 3 sides leaving the top (or bottom) uncutside open.5. Fold the sewn sheets in half length wise so you can find the middle and mark it, open the fold and measure and mark 12" from the middle to each side and sew from the sides to the marking (see above).6. Ta Da!!! your done, congratulations!

We had a wondeful New years although it was bitterly cold here (-2F, or -19C)...and we decided to stay at home and go to dinner at friends instead of the annual Burlington First Night that is always a lot of fun. I wish all of us a great year, peace and health!

Love the tutorial...please, do more for all of us who admire your sweet style! What did you use to close it? And where oh, where did you get those absolutely pretty sheets? Happy New Year, may it be full of all wonderful things for you and your family.

Oh my goodness I love it! I am doing it. What a simple and great idea. My husband always kicks the flat sheets down to the bottom untill it falls off..no use for them here as well I guess, but now!! Yippee...I love duvets as well..even at TJ Max they are pricey.
Thank you!

Hi,
Wish I knew how to sew. I paid someone to sew a flat and a fitted sheet together to make me a duvet just a few months ago. (I found her on Craigslist and paid her fifty dollars, if you want to know.) She did an awesome job, using buttons I found at a flea market for the flap. The best part is that she left two small slits in the seam at each corner of the bottom of the duvet. That helps considerably when pulling the duvet into the cover and matching seam to seam. Love it!

Cute! A friend of mine made duvet covers for her kids using sheets. She left one side longer than the other and sewed velcro along the inside edge and onto the main cover. She then sewed buttons along the flap so it looked like a real duvet cover, but was easy for the kids the remove for washing.

Love the duvet cover, I did that for my girls room, they love the mix matched sides. We are not sheet people either, which is interesting. My mom raised me to tuck in those flat sheet sides military style. Ugh, gives me the willies!